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Three Levels of Text Read Reagan’s First Inaugural on your own. Choose one passage in the text that you feel is
important. Level 1: Read aloud the passage you selected to the
group. Level 2: Say what you think about the passage
(interpretation, connection to past experiences, etc). Level 3: Say what Reagan sees as implications of his
work
Style: Good natured, “man’s man” Actor: can play a role Great communicator Assassination attempt:
heroic
Ideas: Government should be smaller Taxes should be lower for everyone Traditional Christian principles should be
upheld
Budget Cuts Could not cut Medicare or Social Security
The elderly were a key support group. Budget cuts mainly affected business
regulation, programs for the poor Ex: school lunch programs Ex: nursing homes Ex: the environment
Tax Cuts Cut taxes across the board 25% Believed in “supply side”, or “trickle down”
economics. Cut taxes on the wealthy They spend their money to create jobs The poor get jobs, work is rewarded
Problem: Did not cut spending enough.
Result: Huge debt!
Reagan increased our debt more than all the presidents before him combined.
Spending Hike: Defense Strategic Defense Initiative: “Star Wars”
Plan to develop space-based systems to shoot nuclear weapons out of the sky before they reach us.
Reagan’s idea, not rooted in science.
Wacky Ideas Work Star Wars scared the Soviets. They believed we could do it. They couldn’t compete. Led them to negotiate, seek reforms that led
to the downfall of communism in the USSR and surrounding countries!
A Conservative Supreme Court Appoints three justices:
Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy Sandra O’Connor – 1st female
Attempted Assassination 1981 John Hinckley shot and
punctured Reagan’s lung after a speech in Washington D.C.
Reagan survives 3 others wounded
Challenger Disaster“And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's take-off. I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.” -Reagan
Iran-Contra Affair Reagan wants stop communism in Nicaragua. Communists = Sandanistas Anticommunists = Contras Congress cuts off funding to Contras through the
Boland amendment. The Reagan administration secretly sells weapons to
our enemies, Iran, to raise money to fund the Contras.
“Teflon” president, Bush pardons all.
1984 Re-election Republicans:Reagan and H.W. Bush v. Democrats: Walter Mondale and Geraldine
Ferraro